When officers arrived, they found 45-year-old Kim Burbach unresponsive in her car in the parking lot, the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot, according to a Lancaster Police Department press release issued Wednesday.

USCL release
The University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Native American Studies department kicked off its eighth annual Native American Studies Week on Saturday.
Since 2005, USCL has hosted a week of events each spring focused on the rich history and cultural traditions of South Carolina’s indigenous peoples.
This year’s program focuses on issues surrounding Native Americans and law and justice, and includes lectures by regional and nationally-recognized scholars, screenings of films and exhibits highlighting the topic.

Catawba
Riverkeeper
The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation will give one-hour kayak demonstrations at Landsford Canal in April.
Demo kayaks, gear and beginner instruction will be provided by Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation. Life jackets will be required, and minors must have a parent’s/guardian’s signature on an Assumption of Risk and Release form to participate. The form is available at http://lakewylieriversweep.squarespace.com/storage/forms/20120905175321.pdf. Please include cell phone and emergency numbers.

Nita Brown
For The Lancaster News
If you missed them before, concert-goers from the 2011 performance will tell you you’re in for a treat.
The trombone quartet, The Guidonian Hand, from New York City, returns to Lancaster for a spring concert.
Save the date now for the outdoor performance at the Pavilion at historic Craig Farm, set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
Interspersed between musical selections are the group’s entertaining comments about composition, composers or the instrument itself.

Beverly Lane Lorenz
For The Lancaster News
The Sun City Carolina Lakes Photography Club opened its latest photo exhibit, “Delight Your Senses,” to an enthusiastic crowd at a champagne reception Nov. 1, 2012, at the LakeHouse Gallery.
Thirty-six photographers displayed 86 photos.
Photography Club President Greg Douglas invited members to display photos in five categories – animals, landscapes, nature, man-made and people. He challenged them to try different categories.

Imagine the conversations one day in the early 1980s when 13 local ministers learned that one couple was traveling from church to church throughout Lancaster County with the same sob story and receiving handouts.

That’s where the idea of a central clearinghouse named Project HOPE sprang from.

“They were getting rich off of it,” said the late Brown Wylie, in a February 1985 interview with The Lancaster News.

An inmate already serving a lengthy term at Kershaw Correctional Institute was charged earlier this month with threatening the life of a prison employee.

Demario Marquis Clyburn, 30, of Leeville, was served March 1 with two arrest warrants for criminal conspiracy and threatening the life, person or family of a public employee, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

According to the arrest warrants, Clyburn threatened to inflict bodily harm on a woman who works at KCI on Oct. 4, 2012,

GREENVILLE – The editorial staff of The Lancaster News and Carolina Gateway came home from the S.C. Press Association winter meeting on Saturday, March 23, with a record-setting 28 awards for newspaper excellence.

The Lancaster News competes with other papers in the Palmetto State that are published two to three times a week. The Lancaster News also received the President’s Award Cup in 2012 for its overall design, writing and photography as the highest scoring newspaper in that division.